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(no subject) [Dec. 17th, 2008|01:57 pm]
[info]moonandserpent asked me to:

My Amazon.com Wish List

I am also not expecting anything from anyone. Except, of course, my obscenely wealthy stalkers; you guys have no choice. Suggestions for what to read next are always welcome.
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Porkcore [Dec. 17th, 2008|10:41 am]
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If anything's porkcore, I would have to guess a tattooed pig would count...



(via [info]riotclitshave).

Information on the artist can be found here.
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yep. [Nov. 4th, 2008|10:56 pm]
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cute break [Nov. 4th, 2008|09:09 am]
h/t [info]danielmc

1. Stop talking about politics for a moment or two.
2. Post a reasonably-sized picture in your LJ, NOT under a cut tag, of something pleasant, such as an adorable kitten, or a fluffy white cloud, or a bottle of booze. Something that has NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS.
3. Include these instructions, and share the love.




Awwwwwwwwww. Though that hedgehog video (YouTube) from yesterday was pretty damn adorable.

More cute hop-hops here.
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coffee, tea, or cryptozoology [Nov. 2nd, 2008|11:20 am]
Went out to get some lovely fall pics for the folks, and I happened upon this fellow:



hot bug on windowsill action under the cut )
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can I have donuts and bacon with Picard and Riker? I want to vote for that. [Oct. 31st, 2008|10:16 am]


Yep, I'm posting an election poll. There may or may not be bacon involved. )
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you're only a rebel from the waist down [Oct. 22nd, 2008|03:53 pm]
[Current Location |damn the luck, we get a politician either way]
[soundtrack |monks]

The week's endorsements:

Sen. Obama - Colin Powell

Sen. McCain - al-Qaeda.

...editorial comment on my part, I think, would be superfluous.
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The internet runs on bacon [Oct. 13th, 2008|05:09 pm]
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So, ok, there's this guy. This guy, [info]rstevens. He makes good comics for good people. Additionally, he's doing custom pixel portraits on his site, and I just happened to get in on said portraiture.

How did it turn out, you ask?



AWESOME.

That is all. I have squee'd myself at how delightful it is. If anyone else goes in on this, do share the results!
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Well dang [Oct. 7th, 2008|08:52 pm]


Election projections by fivethirtyeight.com, who brings teh Math.

Incidentally, Indiana is very narrowly projected for Obama via 538, as of tonight, whereas most other sites have us projected as a statistical tie, or very narrowly for McCain. This, I believe, is the most favorable projection for Obama so far; interesting to see how tonight's debate influences polling numbers.

/stats geek
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One of my favorites [Sep. 4th, 2008|08:39 am]


via the Discordian E-Jing-a-Ling thing, of course.

Suppose I'm due for an update post; kinda difficult to parse everything into easily-digestible written output, though. Though maybe easily-digestible isn't necessary or even preferable. Hee. I am the roughage in your information diet. =p

Anyway, update soonish; I just wanted to share the bit above as one of my favorite results in the aforementioned Erisian I-Ching thing.

To abuse the metaphor presented above: maybe it's a cakewalk right now, maybe you're up against a mini-boss at the moment. Some folks are training, some are buying and selling. Some are grinding, and some are just trying to survive. Whatever you happen to do, though, do it with passion and conviction. (Working on that, myself). And keep yo' head up. ;)
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Strangers with comics [Aug. 25th, 2008|02:02 pm]
So I was reading Willow's LJ post (specifically the bit about Death Race) the other day, thinking I had the perfect comic to post as a response. Alas! I could not find it. So I emailed the artist this morning, one [info]beatonna, and lo and behold! I have the comic in question within the day:
cut for space and awesome )
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enabling [Aug. 18th, 2008|11:11 am]
Ah, I have enjoyed being a goofball in Seattle with my favorite folks this weekend. Many thanks to Libby, Willow and Nathan for their hospitality. There's been Borg and bacon and Burnout...sure makes me feel at home. :D

However. All good things must come to an end...I head back tomorrow morning. And I have a favor to ask. We theoretically get into Indy at 6:10pm...there's a shuttle that leaves at 6:40 for B-Town, but between potential delays and grabbing luggage, not certain I'd make that. Next one would leave at 8:40. And I'd rather give one of you guys the $25 anyway.

So...if anyone's around, and would care to pick a Matt up, I will be full of love and hugs and gas money. But, if not, no worries. I would not be a stranded Matt. Simply a home-slightly-later Matt. ^_^
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Pretty much. [Aug. 13th, 2008|02:28 pm]
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Old-timey Baconpunk [Aug. 12th, 2008|11:44 am]
Pretty nice day yesterday. Around the end of a fairly pleasant work afternoon, [info]rhiannon76 messages me rather excitedly: "I just found a song about bacon:", followed, of course, by the link.

OMG old-timey baconpunk. Even more so after a quick Google search turned up the lyrics. I've not yet worked my midi-fu to get the tune on the previous page going, but wow. Vintage baconpunk!

I like (no snark; genuine like) how I've become sort of a hub or nexus for bacon-related events and news. Just yay. :D
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SNGNTS: Saturday Night Game Night (at The Spoon)! [Aug. 6th, 2008|10:25 am]
Yep, about time for another Game Night.



Runcible Spoon
7:30pm - boredom
Saturday, August 9th


Apples to Apples, Balderdash and cards will definitely be there. Possibly more. As always, feel free to bring a game to teach / share. Good food, good friends, fun games. Yes.
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miscellany [Jul. 9th, 2008|12:58 pm]
Not that long, but still worth a cut )
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somebody get me a whiteboard and some markers [Jul. 7th, 2008|06:30 pm]
Today's comic from Pictures for Sad Children made this necessary, even if I never use it:

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promised updates [Jul. 6th, 2008|01:38 pm]
It's actually been somewhat difficult to sit down and try to write an update post; not for want of desire to update, not for any unpleasantness. I suppose it's just: things proceed apace. There's not that much to say. Except there is, except I never feel like it's all that relevant unless someone asks. Where to begin?

Work has been mercifully quiet of late, which has allowed me to catch up on a lot of end-of-year projects. Speaking of which, the end-of-year, "you get it whether your a fuckup or our star staff member" raise kicked in on the 1st. Yay!

Actually read one of those "volunteer for a Psych Dept. study" flyers you (well, I) see everywhere. Lo and behold, I was eligible, and it sounded like fun (and, um, SCIENCE), so I'm currently in the middle of a six-day memory game study. They had me do some memory tests, one very akin to Simon, others involving strings of numbers or words, etc. on a touchscreen, then more the next day, etc. The Simon bit was ok, and apparently I impressed the tester with remembering the strings of numbers spoken through headphones test.
The delightfully creepy bit was one test the first day, where you have to listen to sentences spoken by a distorted computerized voice, and write down the last word in each sentence. They mention beforehand that some sentences will make sense, while some won't. So, for instance, hearing a garbled "Instead of a fence, plant a hedge" is fairly easy to make out, whereas "Brave china, consider the worm", while syntactically correct, is an odd thing to hear a creepy computer voice say. I wish I could remember more of them. I'm almost sure it swore a couple of times...

I have just sneezed carrots all over the monitor. I scroll down, and discover that I did not find all the bits at first pass.

Home life is ok, if a little (ok, remarkably) dull. This is why I am glad it is summer; it is always a good time to go out for a walk. Thoroughly enjoyable, and quite good for you, to boot. Been feeling generally better / healthier too, doubtless at least in part to all the walking. Getting a little creative energy back, which is good.

I miss people, lots. Saving up vacation time for trips, though.
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lieutenant nezvanova and the superpositional qualia [Jul. 3rd, 2008|01:06 pm]


Apologies for not having updated in a while. Expect at least one entry this weekend; hasn't been much to say, but I know I should catch everyone up. In the meantime, please enjoy the tale above.
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Ok sure [Jun. 26th, 2008|12:55 pm]
The Challenge:

* Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.
* See if anybody else responds with "I've done that." If they have, you need to add another! (2.b., 2.c., etc...)
* Have your friends cut & paste this into their journal to see what unique things they've done in their life.


1) Carried a loaded firearm, with legitimate purpose, into a high school class post-Columbine.*
Dammit, [info]enderwiggen.

1a) Been part of a Teslacentric (Teslasexual?) photo shoot (thanks [info]carpe_jugulum!).

2) Managed to stab myself in the leg with a steak knife whilst eating pie** / got to see inside my (coincidentally) same leg, through all kinds of skin and fatty layers and such under local anesthetic during an operation**.

3) Lost my virginity*** to my Confirmation sponsor. ****



*It should be noted that the class was Marksmanship, and I was in attendance at a military academy at the time. Still.
** Details for both in this comment thread.
***Not during the ceremony, though. That would have been HOT.
****Who turned pagan pretty much just before I turned agnostic/hermetic/discordian/whatever-the-hell-this-is, a year or so later. That's some good confirmin'. =p
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